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BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned.

A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year. The studio then spent the last year pitching and trying to determine what it would do next.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 40 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year.

Maybe this was for the best, if that was their best idea to move forward with. I feel like people are getting tired of cookie-cutter live service games coming out every year.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

My main issue with live service games is that I just don't have the fucking time to invest in them.

I've yet to see a game move to live service that didn't just pad out all the busy work and fuck with the pacing of any story element.

Give me a single player experience that I can push up 6 months later and not have to grind to get back to where ever I was.

[–] Mortoc@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

You can just smell the shitty decision making that some executive went thru. Prolly the same exec that pulled the trigger on the layoffs.

[–] omarfw@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

I've been tired of live service games since before fortnite had battle royale.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 6 points 17 hours ago

I don't even know how you'd do that with God of war.